depressing...not recommended...loser takes antidepressants and spirals downward...

* good poem on decline of academia, funny title

** Unless you're a Lipsyte "completist" like I am, this is not the novel to start with (read "The Ask"). The story is pretty much without interest (is this really about Kurt Cobain?) and the characters are cardboard cutouts, but his sentences are, as usual, excellent: funny, witty, insightful.

*** Famous son of a famous father. Convincing musings on identity (it's not necessarity narrative), free will, the mind-body problem. His clear, jargon-free writing style is refreshing.

** prose poems...not bad